Firefighters in Kamenica face serious working conditions

The fire department in Kamenica is facing serious working conditions. Along with the vehicles, there are firemen in a garage.

Also located in this facility are vehicles and personnel, which is causing us health problems”, says fireman Femi Imer.

“As it is known here for any change, the vehicles are turned on inside, released carbon monoxide and stayed under those conditions even the personnel in that smoke, I guess that doesn't even want comment”.

We stay where vehicles start, where they release gases, where we do the day break, the custody of d.m. we stay on auto gas”, says the other fireman, Isa Isufi.

This unit's commander, Riza Bunnjak, says the problem has been addressed in a long time, but has not been answered.

We raised this case early. We're heading towards them. The AME, at the request where the agency has major construction projects, we have submitted the same project to the municipality that has been the city's readiness to help it, but in reality by today no step has been made in this direction”, says Riza Bunjaku.

Cameron Kalaba, director for Protection and Salvation in this municipality, says they are looking at the possibilities of finding any donor for improving conditions because the municipality has no budgetary opportunity.

We have a small budget as a municipality, and we can't fully build that object with the municipality's own financial means”, Kalaba says. We're also trying with external donors, but so far we're where we are and we haven't been able to do anything more”

This unit requires better conditions because their health is also under threat. /rtk